Russell Martin believes Southampton have been increase their perception in current weeks, which helped them earn a 1-1 draw with south coast rivals Brighton on Friday.
Flynn Downes scored his maiden Premier League objective to cancel out Kaoru Mitoma’s first-half header to earn the Saints a primary away level of the season.
They might have taken residence all three factors, however Cameron Archer’s objective was disallowed for offside as Adam Armstrong was judged to have interfered with play from an offside place within the build-up.
Southampton stay backside of the desk, 4 factors behind Wolves in seventeenth, however ended a run of 9 straight Premier League away defeats.
“I preferred a whole lot of it. I believe we’ve got been higher than that and never obtained some extent,” Martin informed BBC Sport.
“The second half I actually preferred. First half: an absence of conviction and aggression in sure moments. They responded brilliantly. Good efficiency in opposition to a great crew.
“[Downes’ goal was a] good end. A extremely good transfer from again to entrance. I preferred the braveness. We have to maintain turning the screw. In the event that they maintain giving us all the pieces, the outcomes will change.
“They’ve been creeping up with perception. We’ve had a tough degree of opponent. We have been glorious and went toe-to-toe with a crew who’ve gone second.”
Take some extent. Deserved extra.
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Brighton sit second within the desk after that consequence, at the very least briefly forward of the remainder of the weekend’s fixtures.
The Seagulls have didn’t win 5 of the final 10 residence league video games the place they scored the opening objective (D5), after successful every of the final 9 earlier than that.
Nonetheless, Fabian Hurzeler is the primary supervisor to keep away from defeat in every of his first seven residence video games within the Premier League (W3 D4) since Maurizio Sarri with Chelsea in 2018-19.
The German was left annoyed, nevertheless, as his aspect didn’t take a slew of excellent alternatives within the opening interval.
“It was not one of the best recreation from us concerning our depth and positional recreation,” he informed Sky Sports activities. “We solely deserve the consequence like this.
“We should always have completed the sport within the first half, however we didn’t after which we obtained punished.
“We needed to make some adjustments, and we tried to get an influence on the sport. Now we have to maintain working, and it’s a course of, it takes time, and we’ve got to enhance for the subsequent recreation.
“You need to give attention to the small particulars if you wish to win within the Premier League. We should always see what the fact is. The truth is we’ve got a whole lot of laborious work to do.”
